Released in France as La Kermesse Heroique, Carnival in Flanders is set during the long-ago war between the Dutch and Spanish. A tiny village in Flanders is invaded by Spanish troops. The townsfolk have heard of Spanish cruelties in other towns, and decide to deflect the vanquishers by playing dead. This isn't terribly effective (you have to take a breath once in a while), so the wife of the burgomaster tries to soften up the invaders with a lavish carnival. So successful is this venture that the Spaniards allow the village to escape being decimated, or even taxed. An award-winner many times over, Carnival in Flanders was banned in Germany; evidently, Goebbels caught on that director Jacques Feyder and scenarists Bernard Zimmer and Charles Spaak were drawing deliberate parallels between the Spanish and the then-burgeoning Nazis.

欧文·克莱恩自编自导，本·萨弗迪、约书亚·萨弗迪兄弟担任制片人，丹尼尔·祖尔格哈德利、马修·马希尔等主演，讲述了一个少年漫画家的成长故事。本片曾入围第75届戛纳电影节导演双周单元。

The host of a failing children's science TV show attempts to fulfill his childhood dream of being an astronaut by building a rocket ship in his garage, all while trying to makes sense of surreal events around him.

罗伊（尼古拉斯·凯奇 Nicolas Cage饰）是一个手段高超的职业骗子，他有一个大胆且贪心的伙伴法兰克(萨姆·罗克韦尔 Sam Rockwell饰)，他们一起搭档了很多年，几乎没有失过手。 　　同时，罗伊亦是一个精神强迫症患者。他爱干净，不允许别人穿着鞋走进他家；他谨慎，每次出门都要三番五次检查煤气和电源开关。法兰克为此帮他找了一位心理医生。 　　在心理医生的帮助下，罗伊找到了他失散多年的女儿安吉拉(艾莉森·洛曼 Alison Lohman饰)。女儿的出现改变了他的生活，让他慢慢感到了做父亲的乐趣。但他并不想让女儿知道他的职业。 　　但是纸毕竟包不住火，女儿知道了他的秘密，并展现出极其出色的欺骗才能，罗伊决定将他一身的本领都传给女儿。 　　很快，一庄“大买卖”来了，父女、伙伴齐上阵，结果将如何呢？

哈里（丹尼·德维托 Danny DeVito 饰）和泽尼亚（雷亚·普尔曼 Rhea Perlman 饰）两夫妻，一个是商人，一个是赌棍，两人再也没有想到的是，他们爱情的结晶，小小的玛蒂尔达（玛拉·威尔逊 Mara Wilson 饰）竟然是个世间罕有的天才。应玛蒂尔达的要求，完全忽视她的教育的父母将她送进了康琴小学，一段新的旅程在玛蒂尔达面前就此展开。　　身为康琴小学的校长，特拉齐布尔小姐（帕姆·费里斯 Pam Ferris 饰）喜欢听话而温顺的孩子，身为铅球高手，她解决问题的唯一方法就是武力。和暴力的特拉齐布尔小姐完全相反的是一年级老师汉尼小姐（艾伯丝·戴维兹 Embeth Davidtz 饰），她的温柔和耐心让玛蒂尔达如沐春风。聪明的玛蒂尔达发现汉尼小姐似乎有着一些无法结局但又说不出口的难处，她决定用自己的力量帮助汉尼小姐。